America's Favorite Towns (PHOTOS)

As you watch the sun dip below 14,000-foot peaks from Allred's restaurant, toast your craft beers to a vacation well spent in Telluride, CO, a historic ski town hip enough to host film and bluegrass festivals.

Telluride, rated No. 7, is just one of the small towns with outsize personalities that proved irresistible to the T+L community. For our first America's Favorite Towns survey, we asked our fans and followers to nominate their favorites on social media with the hashtag #TLTowns--and then to vote for the 744 towns in 55 categories, including farmers' markets, museums, adventure travel, and family-friendly hotels.

To determine the overall popularity results, we calculated each town's average score. The results reveal that T+L readers have a soft spot for small towns in the Rockies, with the No. 1 title going to Aspen, CO, which scored highly for its attractive locals, beer scene, and Victorian-era Main Street.

See More of <a href="http://www.travelandleisure.com/articles/americas-favorite-towns-2013/9">America's Favorite Towns</a><br><br>Beauty abounds in this tony ski town, from the 14,000-foot heights of the surrounding peaks to its residents, who won the No. 2 spot in the survey’s attractive people category—second only to the southern belles of Oxford, MS. (And looks aren’t everything: Aspenites also scored No. 3 for intelligence.) Victorian-era brick façades housing chic boutiques like Fendi and Prada lend an Old West–meets–Fifth Avenue appeal to the former mining town’s walkable streets, which encompass the No. 3–ranked Main Street and No. 1 town square.<br><br><em>Photo: Courtesy of Aspen Chamber Resort Asociation</em>